"I cry all the time - at work, at the shrink's, with my lady," he said. "The Notebook killed me. Up destroyed me. Up was like the animated Amour."

Pine, who admitted that he messed up his first Star Trek audition "as badly as you can imagine", added that, following his experience of high school, he's always been happiest spending time with people who aren't entirely confident.

"Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves, the misfits," he said.

However, Pine added that he has learned to ignore negative criticism, saying: "You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward."